Garment-pad.



PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.

G. GOLDMAN.

GARMENT PAD.

APPLICATION FIL-BD APR. 27, 1904.

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GUSTAV GOLDMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

GARNlENT-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,115, dated February 21, 1905. Application filed April 27,1904. Serial No. 205,238.

To all whom, if may concern.'

Be it known that I, GUsTAv GOLDMAN, of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented a new and useful Garment-Pad, which invention is fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to garment-pads, and has for its object to provide a pad made of fibrous material which will be so constructed as to be fieXible and readily adjusted into position in the garment and so resilient in character as to retain its shape, and particularly avoid flattening or crushing out under the pressure of the garment. l

Heretofore various forms of garment-pads have been constructed with a fiat 'body of reinforcing material inclosed in a fibrous mass.

the object of the reinforcing material being mainly to give tensile strength to the pad and avoid itsbeing drawn or pulled apart while adjusting it tothe garment.

The present invention consists in a garmentpad of any suitable form to meet the requirements of the particular part of the garment to which it is to be applied, the pad being composed of a body or mass of fibrous material inclosing a reinforcing-body of resilient material, which reinforcing-body is so iiutedor corrugated as to present a series of undulating surfaces which tend to very much increase the resiliency of the pad without detracting from4 its flexibility, the reinforcing material also serving to add tensile strength to the pad, as in the old form heretofore mentioned.

The forni of the pad and the particular formation of the corrugations or flutings may be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention, and one of these forms l have illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings for assistance in better describing the invention. l

ln said drawings, Figure l is a front perspective of a padv embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is alike view of the corrugated or fluted reinforcing' element.

Referring to the drawings, l is a sheet of resilient material, preferably hair-cloth fabric. This material is cut into a shape corresponding to the general outline of the pad desired, in the present instance being shown as approximately semicircular, and is then stamped States Patent No. 758,246.

or. otherwise formed, as with a fiuting-iron, so as to provide it with a series of corrugations or flutings 2, which flutings preferably have their greatestdepth and breadth along the straight side of the blank, the fiutings gradually approaching each other as they eX- tend from said straight side and gradually decreasing in size and depth toward the curved side of the blank. For the purpose of maintaining the corrugations in the blank in shape and so that they may not flatten out by the pressure of the garment upon the formed pad suitable means-as, for example, a tie cord or thread Bmay extend from side to side along thel blank and preferably at or near its straight edge, the said tie-cord being' fastened at its ends to the blank, preferably at the corners thereof, and passing through each one of the corrugations or fiutings. The resilient corrugated blank thus formed is then inserted into a mass of fibrous material 4 in any suitable way. Preferably this is accomplished in such a way as not only to bind the fibers of the fibrous mass together, but also to bind the fibers to the resilient corrugated blank. One method of thus uniting the bers together and to the blank consists in laying the fibers down upon one side of the blank in a light iuify eonditon and then introducing a suitable binding' material in a dry finely-divided condition-aa for example, aluminium resinate between the fibers and then treating the mass of fibers with the dry binding material bctween them so as to convert the finely-divided material into an active binder for the fibers after the manner set forth in my United The fibers being thus applied to one side of the corrugated or fluted reinforcing-blank, the same is then reversed and a suitable mass of fibers, if desired, is applied to the other side in a similar manner. lt will of course be understood that the fibers may be applied to both sides of the corrugated blank and supplied with suitable binding material, after which the whole may be treated so as to convert the binding material into an active binder by a single operation. A very convenient means for thus converting the dry binding material into an active binder consists in passing the same be- IOO tween heated rollers, either in the presence of steam or not, as may be deemed most desirable and most appropriate for the kind of fibers being treated.

The invention is not limited to the use of any particular kind'of resilient material for the formation of the corrugated blank, nor to the use of any particular class of fibers in the formation of the pad. Moreover, the invention is not limited to the formation of a pad of any particular kind or shape, the shoulderpad here-in shown being for the purpose of illustration only.

While I have herein indicated the use of a dry binding material introduced between the fibers for binding the same together and to the blank, it will be understood that this is not essential, as any suitable form of binder may be employed. Moreover, if desired, the corrugated blank might be introduced into the fibrous mass without employing any binding material to secure the fibers to the blank or to each other.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed isl. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated reinforcingsheet.

2. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated sheet of resilient reinforcing material introduced into the mass of fibers.

3. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material, and a sheet of resilient corrugated material the corrugations of said sheet gradually decreasing' in depth from one side of the pad to the other.

4:. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated sheet of resilient material whose corrugationsV decrease in depth and width from one side of the pad to the other.

5. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material, and a corrugated sheet of resilient material, the corrugations being arranged in a flaring or fan-like manner, and gradually increasing in depth and width from one side to the other.

6. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated reinforcingsheet, the fibers of the mass being united to each other and to the corrugated blank by a suitable binding material.

7. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous materialand a corrugated reinforcingsheet,.with means for maintaining the corrugations in shape.

8. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated reinforcingsheet having atie cord or thread secured at its ends to the blank and extending through the corrugations thereof.

9. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material, and a corrugated sheet of resilient woven material embedded in said mass of fibers, the contour of the woven material conforming to the general configuration of the pad.

10. A garment-pad composed of a mass of fibrous material and a corrugated reinforcingsheet of hair-cloth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV GOLDMAN. ialitnesses:

REEVE LEWIS, GUsTAvE R. THOMPSON. 

